This volume contains the proceedings of the session on “Dying, Death, and
Afterlife in Dharma Traditions and Western Religions” at the Third Dharma
Association of North America (DANAM) Conference, held at the site of the
American Association of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA, 18–20 November 2005. Over 100 participants from
universities and nonprofit institutions in the USA, Canada, UK, Belgium, Egypt
and India attended the conference. Complete texts of the four papers presented
in the session are included in this volume.